10 Best eCommerce Website Builders to Try out in 2025

BigCommerce powers some of the best-looking and top-earning stores on the internet. These include Fitbit, Skullcandy, Nikon, Gillette, Ivory, Ben & Jerry’s, and Toyota.

BigCommerce comes in two forms:  BigCommerce Essentials and BigCommerce Enterprise (a more customized experience for larger customers). BigCommerce Essentials, in turn, comes in three plans. Prices are similar to Shopify’s. The plans do have revenue caps, and BigCommerce charges you if you exceed them, so bigger shops obviously need to use the higher-level plans.

Shopify has become one of the most popular eCommerce platforms, currently powering more than 1.2 million online stores, because it makes it relatively easy to build a customized eCommerce store that stands out from the crowd, with a wide range of features. 

It includes a detailed built-in CMS where you can easily build a database of all the types of stock you wish to sell. The CMS adds links to help your data entry and to cross-reference items across your site. You enter collections of similar products that link across your site.

The most popular content management system is WordPress. However, the core WordPress installation doesn’t include eCommerce features. If you want to create a WordPress eCommerce site, you’re going to need to add a plugin such as WooCommerce, which is free, open-source software. You will have to pay for more advanced extensions, however.

Also, you will typically have to pay separately for the hosting of your website, as with most WordPress sites. 

With WooCommerce being a WordPress plugin, you will need to begin by creating your WordPress website. You will find numerous free or paid WordPress templates. Check that your theme is compatible with WooCommerce, however. You create pages and posts just like any other WordPress site. 

Weebly is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses. It even offers a usable free plan in addition to three levels of paid service. However, most serious companies will need at least the middle-level Professional plan to remove Weebly’s ads from your eCommerce store.

Weebly is a drag-and-drop website builder, making it easy for non-coders to develop a site. Unlike Shopify and BigCommerce, Weebly doesn’t solely build eCommerce sites – you can create any type of website using it. It does, however, offer all the essential features you need to make your online store.

Wix is another drag-and-drop content management system that also includes eCommerce features. They have upgraded their eCommerce functionality over time, however, making significant improvements in 2020.

They offer eight pricing plans, four of which include eCommerce capabilities. 

Wix takes a different approach to the initial setup of your site than most other eCommerce website builders. You begin by designing your site and only move into the eCommerce-specific parts (like entering inventory) later in the process. When you do enter your inventory, you will find it a simple and intuitive operation. 

Squarespace Commerce is Squarespace’s platform for online stores. It makes building an online store a five-step process:

Square Online comes from Square, the payment processor. The company has also bought Weebly, and although both website builders are similar, they still function as separate products. 

Square Online is easy to use. You can set up your eCommerce store using a general layout which you can adapt using your company’s fonts and colors. The cost of this simplicity is that it is not as customizable as some of the other CMSs. You don’t get a large selection of templates.

However, the design Square Online uses is suitable for eCommerce. The emphasis is firmly on your products rather than your store’s layout and design.

Volusion is one of the oldest eCommerce website builders, but it has recently updated to a new operating system, V2, to keep it up to date. It is more focused on data than web design, however. Creating a Volusion website is less intuitive than many of the other programs covered here. It does include 11 free and 30+ paid themes, however.

Volusion’s eCommerce-specific features are generally very good, although you can’t use them to sell digital products such as eBooks, courses, digital art, or music. You can include product videos, however, a feature that is unavailable on most other website builders.

BigCartel is more straightforward than many of the other eCommerce website builders covered here, but could well be suitable for small businesses or people wanting to sell a few items. You can use it to make an online store for free.

Its free plan will appeal to those on a budget. Although it has a user-friendly interface, you will need to code if you want to make the most of its features. 

It guides you through the onboarding process with helpful prompts, reminders, and tips. You can select a template, though they are basic and allow limited customization. To make much change to the templates, you need to code.